Simple Homemade Alfredo Sauce

I love Italian food! It is my major weakness… especially fettuccine alfredo. It’s hard to resist that pasta smothered with creamy cheesy garlicky goodness. Most recipes are fairly complicated and long for homemade alfredo sauce. So I made it at home rarely, if ever. Then I made up my own recipe that was quick and easy, yet really yummy too.

*note – this makes about four adult servings, double as needed for more.

First, put the cream cheese and butter in a small saucepan.

Then add the garlic and the milk.

Next add the Parmesan, the salt and the pepper.

Then put on the stove over medium heat. Stirring it with a whisk as the cream cheese and the butter melt. Once it begins to boil whisk constantly so it doesn’t burn and turn down the heat after about 2-3 min to med/low heat. Let it cook for about 5-7 min more while whisking, until it is a little thicker but not quite the thickness you want your sauce to be. It will thicken as it cools down. If it is too thick on the stove it will be very thick and chunky off the stove.

We don’t always have fettuccine noodles at home and use whatever pasta we have on hand. Last night all I had was elbow noodles, so we had elbow noodles with alfredo sauce!

Yes that is halved hotdog bun toasted garlic bread! We make do with what we have 🙂 its pretty good, you should try it! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Johanna

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I'm a mother of two adorable girls only 11 months apart, and a sweet little boy. I'm madly in love with being their mommy. My husband is a youth minister and we love serving God together with our lives. I am passionate about being a stay-at-home mother and homemaker, its such an exciting, exhausting and rewarding job!

Actually, you can melt the butter only (first step) and add cut up chicken breasts or shrimp and cook until the meat is done through and then add the other ingredients as listed. I have a similiar recipe and it is SO yummy.

I saw this on pinterest today and immediately jumped up to make it for our lunch. It was amazing. I grated fresh parmasean, bumping it up to 1 cup. It made enough for me and three kids. My middle kid had 2 big servings! I had sauted portabella mushrooms with mine and it was amazing.

My recipe for Alfredo sauce has the exact same ingredients, although I don’t tend to measure. I orinally started using half and half with this recipe, but have found that you can use almost any milk. I’ve also used 1%. This is delicious and easy and you will receive lots of compliments.

This is absolutely amazing!! I’ll never buy jar Alfredo again! I’ve done out once following the recipe and tonight I’m doing it again but adding pesto at the end. I also am out of milk but had cream left over from the holidays so I used that instead. Extra fattening that way but should be amazing!! Thank you for posting this!

This was delicious!! And so quick & easy. Thank you so much for a great alfredo recipe that is made with ingredients I always have in my fridge. My fiance approves too, he said “This is so good, I wanna just drink it!” It was a perfect supper after coming home from ice fishing!

So I made this yesterday for dinner and I quadrupled the recipe cause I know my family they will not just eat one serving. This was amazing, i added chicken and tomatoes to the sauce. Brilliant and I don’t think I will be allowed to buy store bought anytime soon. I had enough leftover to make an Alfredo type mac and cheese. Even better the next day.

I make one similar to this! Normally, I use full fat “everything”. I am going to try the low-fat cream cheese and skim milk tonight. Love the pic with the hot dog bun! We do the same thing at our house if there’s no garlic bread in the freezer. It doesn’t have to look fancy to taste yummy!

I found this recipe on pinterest and I am no longer allowed to buy the jar stuff or make it any other way. I have tried making alfredo sauce in the past but it always calls for expensive heavy whipping cream and no matter what I do, I can’t seem to get it to turn out right. It always turns out grainy and separates. Your recipe is most cost effective (a block of cream cheese is half the price of a quart of cream) and always turns out velvety smooth and delicious!

I pinned this awhile back and being as fettucine alfredo has been requested for dinner tonight, i’m going to give this a try. I want broccoli and chicken, husband and oldest son want shrimp, younger son wants chicken and daughter will only want pasta and sauce most likely, so I think I’m going to do an alfredo bar – mix and match and make your own 🙂 This recipe will be perfect!!

This is close to the Alfredo sauce I make except for the cream cheese. I am making it to put in white chicken lasagna. I bet it is going to be out of this world! Homemade alfredo sauce beats anything in a jar. Thanks for sharing. Btw hot dog buns are not just for hot dogs in my world! Lol

This was yummy and so easy to make! When I made it I used undated butter with the cream cheese and I didn’t have any garlic powder, so I used Garlic Salt, but I only put enough in to taste and not make it overly garlicky or overly salty. Thanks for the recipe and I’ll be making this again. 🙂

I wanted to make chicken Parmesan and fettuccine Alfredo for dinner tonight but didn’t have any Alfredo sauce. It’s very nasty out tonight, rainy and cold, and I didn’t want to go to the store to get the sauce so I searched simple Alfredo sauce on Pinterest and this recipe was returned in the results.

It is simply delicious and I had everything on hand. I added about double the milk because I like mine a little thinner.

Delish. I may never buy jar or box Alfredo again! Thanks so much for sharing!

Prepared this today and turned out wonderful. I used it for chicken roll ups. Will bake tomorrow evening for our Teacher Appreciation Dinner at our Church. It is a definite “keeper”!!! Thanks for sharing. Debbie

I have been using a similar recipe for several years and it is the best! Very forgiving if you don’t have the exact ingredients or the exact amounts. I made enough for my son’s graduation party recently (we had a pasta bar) and it reheated very well.

Made this last night for shrimp and whole wheat pasta. SO good and so easy! I will never buy any alfredo in a jar again! Also, when I reheated it for lunch today, it reheated very well, not near as “saucy” as last night, but still covered the pasta and shrimp and tasted fabulous!

just made this and it is sooo good!! i made a few changes…used colby jack cheese and added bacon and minced garlic…delish!!! so easy to make. This is the only alfredo we are eating from now on. Thank you for sharing!!

Absolutely fabulous!!! I used the shredded parm as it is what I had to hand and it worked, as well This is my go-to alfredo recipe…IF you are looking for an easy, quick deepish recipe-look no further! Thanks so much for the recipe!!!!!

I was looking for a quick,easy alfredo sauce one night while making dinner, Spotted your recipe, made it,family loved it. We won’t be buying the jar stuff anymore! thanks again for posting a great recipe.

I have made this sauce a few times, but with Linguine noodles, but tonight I didn’t have anything but lasagna noodles. Anyway, I decided to make a lasagna with alfredo sauce, chicken, and frozen veggies. It was delicious. This sauce is great on anything. I love it.

This recipe is fantastic! I just cut the garlic powder & Parmesan in half for our tastes. The first time I made it I added 2 cups chopped chicken & 2 cups chopped cooked broccoli & stuffed it into cooked jumbo shells. Delish! This morning I did the same but with chopped turkey & stuffed it into manicotti shells & froze them to see how they work as a freezer meal! It tastes so fantastic I just want to eat it straight from the pan! Thx for sharing a great recipe with ingredients I have on hand:)

I made this tonight. I’m so far from someone who can cook but it turned out wonderfully! I added some basil and oregano and used a bit of half-n-half with milk. Definitely adding this one to my repertoire, it will be a nice change from grilled cheese and instant noodles. 🙂

I made this for Mother’s Day and now everyone tells me that the “i have ruined them for bottled sauce” forever LOL my husband even refuses to buy the stuff anymore so that i will “have” to make it :-D. Thank you for yhe awesome recipe

Just wanted to leave a Big Thank You for this quick and easy recipe that allows me to use things I mostly always have around the kitchen. The hubs hates store bought Alfredo but loves this stuff. Thanks for making me look good. My carbonara has never tasted so good.

This will be my go to Alfredo recipe from now on. Me and my husband really loved it. I added sateed mushrooms and 2 cloves of garlic instead of the powdered. I cooked them until they were slightly blackened and it added an extra depth of flavor. Also I did half cream, half milk. I will try just milk next time. If it’s not as good then I’ll use half and half in the future. I didn’t
think the powdered Parmesan would taste good in it but it did. Thanks for a great recipe.

Hi! I know you published this a few years ago but I just found the recipe! I tried this tonight and it has been my favorite alfredo! It was so easy and reminded me of Olive Garden alfredo. Loved it! I didn’t have cream on hand so I searched for recipes that didn’t have it. Can’t wait to make it again! Thanks!